St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-02


by an extensive investigation into the preva-
lence of color blindness on German railways.
The inquiry was extended to seventy-nine
railways. Out of a total of 344, 469 persons
examined 2, 7S4 were found to be color blind.
OF 1854 officials and employees of rail-
roads 100 were entirely and forty four partial
~ color blind. The methods of testing were
chiefly by the SHILLING method, by means Of
colored plates, and the HoLMGREN method, by
means of colored wooden threads.
49,
A Canadian paper has been conducting
canvass on the annexation question. Nine
tenths of those who responded are in favor
of annexation. Most of the answers came
from the Nova Scotians, who were almost
unanimous in favor of it, while there was
majority of nearly two to one that way in
Ontario and Quebec. The returns from Man.
ltoba are not in yet.
***
''How do you explain this weather." asks
an anxious correspondent of the GLOBE. We
don't explain it at all. That's not our bust
ness. Regulating the weather is one thing;
running newspaper is another thing.
They don't harmonize Sometimes a news
paper gets mixed up with the weather, but
the federation doesn't last long The New
York Herald. for instance, has weather
bureau. But the weather manufactured by
the Herald is local in character. 1t is always
confined to the Herald Office. Outdoors they
invariably have different kind of weather.
1t is great mistake for newspapers to dabble
in weather making. 1t never fails to be a
bungling job. Instead of trying to explain
away the weather we had better try to put up
with such as we get. 1t is true this weather
is not exactly to our taste, yet it is better
than no weather at all.
~
"PooR's Railway Manual" for 1887 just
issued, shows that during the past year over
5000 miles of new railway was built, at a
cost of $500, 100000. The expenditure or
this vast sum probably accounts for the
stringeney Of the money market.
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JOHN NJ. LANGsToN, ex-minister to Hayti,
and next to FRED DOUGLASS and BLANCHE K.
BRUCE, the most prominent representative of
the colored race in this country, has declared
in favor of FITz LEE for the vice presidency.
He pronounces Gov, LEE high-minded,
liberal and sagaclous statesman, who has
won the applause of all patriotic people o.
every section, and thinks that if he is NOM
mated by the Democrats as their candidate
for vice president he will receive an enthus-
iastic support from the colored people of
Virginia because of the kind treatment they
have received from him in his. official and
private character, both as regards their edu-
cational and military status and interests.
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1t is curious offset to FoRAKER's wild
rawlings that while he should be pointing
with ford rhetoric the dangers of a new
Southern rebellion, the colored men in the
South should be booming FITz LEE for the
vice presidency. 1t is only another evidence
of how much the politicians are befogged as
to public sentiment
~
A Grand Army Oficia1-I want to COM
mend the GLOBES sensible suggestions about
keeping politics out of the Grand Army Or
ganization, The trouble is that we are get
ting too many suffers and camp bummers
into the organization. Men who proved on
the armies during the war are now posing as
veterans, and with their characteristic
hyena instincts are now trying to make prey
of the Grand Army. The Grand Army was
not organized for a political machine, and.
by the Eternal, the old soldiers will burst it
into thousand pieces before they will let
the politicians pervert it to such base uses.
~
"NoW / am going to make a suggestion"
said the Grand Army man as he warmed up
in his talk, sit is nothing more or less than
to propose an organization of veterans of
both sides. 1t shall be national veteran as.
sociation including all old soldiers regardless
of whether they wore the blue or the grey
But it shall be a soldiers organization in the
strictest sense. Every member must have a
battle record. He must have burnt powder
and have heard the music of the minnie
balls. When we get an organization of that
sort we will have none of this internal politi-
Cal foolishness that FAIRCHILD and FUTILE
and FORAKER are ringing in on u.s..
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Speaker CARLISLE has been invited to take
part in the Ohio campaign. He has accepted
on condition that he be allowed to discuss
live issues only. He thinks that the tariff,
the public lands, the right of local self gov
eminent and other matters of a national
character are of more importance to the peo-
pie of Ohio than issues that were settled
twenty years ago.
~
A st. Paul man who planted some of his
surplus in California real estate last fall,
sight unseen, took run down the other day
to see what it looked like. He was disap-
pointed to find what he supposed was ten
acre garden spot to be only huge sand
bank. He went to the real estate agent from
whom he purchased and made vigorous
kick. isn't this a great cllmate?' asked the
real estate agent with bland smile on his
face. 1.-THE climate is all right. 1t is simply
glorious" replied the ST. Paul citizen. "Well,
then you have no room to KICK said the
agent, ''it was the climate sold you. The
land was thrown in.''
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j. II. HANsoN-Yes, the Pioneer Press sug-
gested that the carnival committee ought to
advertise the carnival during fair week, just
as if we didn't know our business. That was
all arranged for long before it entered the
head of the newspaper mentor. The snow is
not going to melt under the feet of the carni-
val committee. st. Paul is to have the carni-
valist carnival that was ever carnivalled next
winter.
A Genuine Love Match.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. lone of
the most brilliant weddings that have
been witnessed in German-American
circles for many years was solemnized
tonight at ex-CongreSsman Deuster's